Manage Placements¶
After placing courses in the Academic Calendar, you can move them to different cells, remove them, filter the view, and use undo to step back through your changes.
Move a placement¶
- Find the course chip you want to move in the schedule grid.
- Drag the chip to a different cell.
The original placement is removed and a new placement is created in the target cell. The same block-day compatibility rules apply as when placing a new course.
Remove a placement¶
Click the × on a course chip to remove that placement. The cell becomes empty and available for a new placement.
Undo and redo¶
The Academic Calendar keeps a history of up to 30 placement changes within the current session.
| Action | Mac | Windows |
|---|---|---|
| Undo | ⌘Z | Ctrl+Z |
| Redo | ⌘⇧Z or ⌘Y | Ctrl+Y |
Undo and redo operate on individual placement changes — each drag, drop, and removal is a single undoable step.
Warning
Undo history is not saved. If you save the schedule and reopen it, the undo history starts fresh.
Search courses¶
Use the Search courses box at the left of the filter bar to find teachers by course. The search matches against:
- Course code and name
- Course subcategory and category
- Teacher names — searching a teacher's name highlights all rows where that teacher teaches a matching course, even though teacher names are not displayed on the course chips themselves
Teachers whose courses match the search are shown at the top of the grid; non-matching teachers are dimmed and moved to the bottom. Click × to clear the search, or use the Clear filters button to reset the search and all grade/category filters at once.
Filter by grade or category¶
Use the filter buttons in the toolbar to narrow what you see in the course sidebar:
- Grade filters — Show only courses available to selected grade levels.
- Category filters — Show only Core, Required Electives, or Electives.
Active filters affect the sidebar and the teacher grid. Teachers whose assigned courses do not match the active filters are dimmed and moved to the bottom of the grid so you can focus on the relevant rows. All placements remain in the schedule regardless of which filters are active.
Sort the teacher grid¶
Use the Sort buttons in the filter bar to change the order of teacher rows in the grid:
- A–Z / Z–A — Alphabetical by teacher name (default). Click again to reverse the order.
- Subject — Grouped by each teacher's primary subject area (Core first, then Required Electives, then Electives).
- Scheduled — Teachers with the most placed sections appear first, useful for identifying under-scheduled teachers late in the planning process.
The sort applies on top of any active filters. Dimmed (non-matching) teachers always appear below matching teachers regardless of sort order.
Schedule sync with the Validator¶
The Academic Calendar and the Validator always show the same base schedule. When you load a schedule in either tab, the other tab automatically switches to the same schedule.
The sync is intentionally one-directional at a time: whichever tab you load a schedule in becomes the "source." The other tab follows along. If the Academic Calendar has unsaved changes when the Validator switches schedules, the sync is skipped to protect your work.
Seat count column headers¶
Each column header shows the total seats available in that period for each grade level, based on the courses placed in that column and the seat capacity configured for each course. Use this to spot periods where a grade level has too few or too many available seats compared to enrollment.
Switch between semesters¶
Click the semester buttons (Fall, Spring) in the toolbar to switch between semesters. Each semester has its own independent set of placements. Changes made in one semester do not affect the other.
Load a different schedule¶
Click Load… in the toolbar to open a previously saved schedule. The current placements are replaced with the loaded schedule's placements.
Unsaved changes
Loading a schedule replaces all current placements. If you have unsaved changes, save first.